DSG 272: Environment: Hell's gate

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Environment: Hell's gate

[Hunger_Artist]

the coolest version of hells gate ever was in the 4th volume of the sandman comics, "season of mists"

if I find a reference pic, I will link it.

[Carnifex]

painter.again longer than intended maybe.it was a bit difficult to do something concrete.gotta practice lightning.
http://www.photobucket.com/albums/1003/fisite/hellgate.JPG
looking forward to the other entries.

[jarvis2824]

I happen to like the description of the road to hell in the book "Good Omens." It goes...

And the road to hell is not paved with good intentions as most people say. Instead its paved with the frozen bodies of door to door salesmen, which the younger demons go skating on every now and then.

Sincerely,
Chris

[tharmine]

Here is my version of the hell's gate.
A quick one made in 2 hours with Photoshop
http://www.shoppinglefilm.net/tc/images/hell's-gate.jpg

[Vimmzy]

heres mine.. (duh)
http://vimmzy.dynu.com/images/hellgate.gif



btw where you type the url for the image the example saus xxx where the image should be, is that a good omen?

[devilbunny]

oh, man. i think rodin already did this best.
but i'll give it a go. great topic.
and awesome job, tharmine.

[awalloffire]

Tharmine - I would love to know how you did the tile. The whole piece has great color too! Reminds me of Silent Hill 2.
Here's a quicky while I was waiting for eggrolls. Yum.
http://www.portfolios.com/Pics/walloffire/walloffire_3_p.JPG
Maybe another one later.

[charge]

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~cuch/post/hellgate.JPG

[OLSEN]

Tharmine, lol, that just wroooong.

Nice stuff all. I just saw Jacobs Ladder again, and im all into hellish stuff. I cant wait to see what the rest of you cook up.

[ClocktowerArtworks]

tharmine- that is the perfect green for the tile...perfect

charge- nice work...star wars meets naked lunch...in hell

[Bob Loblaw]

Tharmine! You. Da. Man. Ungh!

[Mad Giraffe]

Well did it for the idea...not completly for the graphics...but it turned out to be that I started to experiment with the brushes again...bwah
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rfriet/peppo/images/peppo_gateofhell.jpg
Tharmmine-Gross....and I can imagine it the stench...I've seen one of those in real life:barf:

[oDD]

see you all there

http://www.sport.wroclaw.pl/~sport005/odd/0590-hells_gate.jpg

[tharmine]

What an incredible matte painting this image will make, ODD! I would like to see it in a movie. Genial (french inthe text)!

[PoX]

http://www.angelfire.com/bug/pox/HELL2.jpg

[plaf]

quickie again. or, well... 45 minutes - an hour i think :)

this topic reminded me of some books by jack l. chalker i read when i was a teenager ("flux and anchor"). this is how i saw the gates to hell described in those books.


http://www.skjoldbroder.dk/gfx/24bit/gatetohell.jpg


oDD: love the amount of detail you manage to convey with very few means. gooDD stuff!



all the best

[Jebus]

Havent got the time to add a decent background. Based on a chateau in France
http://images.cu2.nl/cu2.nl/235/391/1/pics/0.jpg

[Hazzard]

http://aaronsart.5u.com/images/hell.jpg


A quicky in photoshop.

[roger]

Great ideas everybody as usual.

tharmine: I'm almost expecting Ewan McGregor to come out from that at any moment.

oDD: damn nice man!



http://galeon.com/rogerdsg/daily/dsg272hellsgate.jpg

didn't realize the door was so small until I scaned it.

[EndDrive999]

http://www.geocities.com/duskman9991/DSGHellsGate.txt

heres mine

[theAvatar]

Another....I need to work on my detail, any advice?
http://home.pacbell.net/animekid/texture-hell3.jpg

[Matt Dixon]

http://www.vortex.plus.com/Hellgate.jpg

Rushed for time, be back to comment on all the great work later if I can...

[Withdrawn]

Charge you made me laugh so hard with that one... I'm really digging your style....It's really enjoyable to look at. Keep posting!

[Hazzard]

TheAvatar. I think it looks great. The atmosphere and colour in your piece makes me sweat just looking at it! Definatly go back over and fill in the details on your hell guardian guy but I ORDER you to leave the rest its ace!

Matt Dixon. Look like the gate to hell is right down the throat of Satan himself! Love the style and the colour.

Enddriver. Watch your step when you go to the Nevada Dessert! Looks like the doors to hell are open.:p

Roger. You havnt ever been to Swansea city have you? Theres a few clubs that look remarkably similar! Its damn freaky.

Jeabus. Great work on the detail of the building, I can just imagine the cold dusty creepy interior.

Plaf. I always new Santa was guarding the gates of hell! Thats what satans never hungry! Santa keeps bringing him the worlds milk and cookies every year.:p

POX. Sooo reminds me of the entrants of the Labyrinth. Just expect David Bowie to be checking names of the list as you enter.

ODD. You dont need any comments you know youve got it lol.

Madgirrafe. ROLF, carnivals and circuses are so creepy im surprised your the only one who had that take on it.

Charge. Freaky! Just freaky. In an extreme Dali way.

AWalloffire. That must be hell for Picasso! "You will spend eternity in a world that brought the world so much joy!" MUAHAHHAHA

Vimmzy. lol! Thats one hot elevator ride!

Tharmine. JAY AND SILENT BOB!

Carnifex. Love the lighting!


Bloody good one today guys!

[AshenWraith]

http://home1.gte.net/res02ssq/kyric/infernal_gate.jpg


:evilbat:

[st_sleek]

Originally posted by Hazzard
Ignore this post. I hit reply before i was finnished. The one below this is the one i ment to send.

click the "edit" button on your post, and at the top you have the option to delete it. (make sure it's the right post first though;) )

[nBT]

http://www.mattijsart.com/dsg/dsg272hellsgate.jpg
the gates of hell are not a 1 way street. sin, hate, war and spilled blood come out of it.
(2 am. painting like a mindless chimp, id be glad to refine it some more. not now. ive been painting instead of drawing. feels great)

[OLSEN]

Excellent work all.

Markers and ballpoints
http://medlem.spray.se/ksmolsen/image/gate%20to%20hell.jpg

[paper slayer]

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/paper_slayer/DSG272hg.JPG


A good excuse as any to do a glowing volcano.

Vimmzy: I was going to do something similar, but then I saw yours and thought you pretty much nailed It.
The idea I had was a hell gate that moved regularly and replaced a ordinary doorway anywhere in the world, mimicking It perfectly.

Tharmine: That's how I imagine a gate to hell. Cramped, smelly and always open. :)

[kungfu_chook]

i have this really cool humerous idea but don't have the skills to do it quickly, maybe i'll do it as a longer piece, but then again i probably will say to hard bugger it.

[Withdrawn]

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~cuch/post/Gateofhell.JPG They don't let me out much....hmmmm

[rsnurkle]

~45-50 minutes. Experimenting again with brushes.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/rawrsnurkle/sketches/dsg272.jpg

These are so much fun to look at, seeing the various versions of hell's gate (egads! the circus .... oO).
nBT - That's kinda cool, feeling what it is through the colors and stuff.
I'm curious to what media oDD used (digital or traditional?); AshenWraith: love the detail and lighting.

[DraigAthar]

Super quickie.

http://thirdroar.com/dj/2003-11/dj181-hellsgate.jpg

[josephrey]

damn, Withdrawn. that's cool as hell.


great stuff all. don't think i have the energy....

[ticktock69]

Well i tried to do make something a little different... just had an idea and ran with it. All done in painter, which i've only been working with a couple weeks. This is my first attempt at using color, and i kind of like it.

Click here for image (http://home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-tick)

I come from a heavy drawing background with little instruction on color, so any advice or criticism is welcome. I would specificly like information on what brushes to use to really make the texture pop.

DraigAthar: LMFAO

OLSEN: i so love grays :)

AshenWraith: i feel like i'm right there. I personly would have liked it more without the demon... but that's just me.

Matt Dixon: it is what i think a poped zit looks like up close... probably hell for some people.

theAvatar: i'm not sure i'm the best to hand out advice, but i'll give a go at it. I think it would really improve if you went in with a small hard dark or light tool and defined the wings and the texture of the wings. Also if you out lined or distiguished a couple of the flames on the head more then the others, to make it pop, which in turn should make it more readable as a head.

PoX: is that poor guy the only one going to hell? I see that others seem to have a less optimistic view of the human race :firedevil

oDD: NICE!

Mad Giraffe: for some reason i keep thinking of the Michel Jackson case going on.... don't ask me why.

charge: poor dog :(

tharmine: cool shit :) all it needs now is a shit deamon to go with it.:barfing:

[SqueakyWaffle]

Hello... this is my first DSG, and first post on this forum...:chug:

I'm not too great, but I thought this one turned out OK....

PS, about 30 minutes.

http://www.vizspring.com/~michael/hell.jpg

[Darunia]

Lot of nice entries o_o Here's my try...

http://members.lycos.co.uk/darunia4321/dsg/ps_dsg272.jpg

[OLSEN]

Browsing through all your great hellgates inspired me. I just had to do one in color before sleep.

http://medlem.spray.se/ksmolsen/image/hellgate2.jpg

Ticktock69: I love greys too. :)

[silentbrain]

http://64.191.99.205/~silentbr/dump/112703-dsg-hellgate.jpg

[nBT]

OOOH GREAT WORK ALL, GREAT PIECES
(must be the topic)

[oDD]

thanks everyone. Lots of great work. Someone asked : all my stuff is done in photoshop (sometimes i make a quick sketch in pencil and scan it and work in ps from there but this time i made a quick sketch in ps as well)

theAvatar: forget about detail, work more on shape, egz: make that creature have more defined legs, now they look more like cylinders.

[DV8]

Better late then never...did this way back when, just getting around to posting some old ones

quick colour comp:

Mike

http://www.mikephillips.ca/dsg/dsg_272_hells_gate copy.jpg